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Implicit Associations with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: Examination in a Clinical Sample by Borderline Personality Symptomatology
Get PDFObjectives We examine correlates and predictors for implicit associations with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) with the Self-Injury Implicit Association Test (SI-IAT) in a treatment-seeking sample. We also examine group differences in the SI-IAT among those with low/none, moderate and high/clinically significant borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptomatology in a treatment-seeking sample.
Methods Participants (N = 111; 58% female; 89% White; Mage = 30.25) completed the SI-IAT and self-report measures at two time points.
Results Higher BPD symptom scores were significantly, positively correlated with implicit identification with NSSI, and predicted NSSI identity when controlling for depression indices, history of NSSI and other covariates. With Time 1 SI-IAT scores entered as a covariate, BPD scores no longer significantly predicted Time 2 SI-IAT scores. Individuals with moderate and high/clinically significant symptom counts of BPD had higher/stronger implicit associations with NSSI identity than those with no/low BPD symptoms.
Conclusions Individuals with symptoms of BPD may implicitly identify with NSSI more than other clinical groups; examination of implicit assessments in BPD in future research is needed to further explore implicit identification with NSSI in this patient group to further understand both cross-sectional and prospective relations
Green Function in Metric Measure Spaces
Get PDFWe study existence and uniqueness of Green functions for the Cheeger QLaplacian in metric measure spaces that are Ahlfors Q-regular and support a Q-Poincar´e inequality with Q \u3e 1. We prove uniqueness of Green functions both in the case of relatively compact domains, and in the global (unbounded) case. We also prove existence of global Green functions in unbounded spaces, complementing the existing results in relatively compact domains proved recently in [BBL20]
Sustainable Approaches to Stormwater Management in Northampton, MA: Identifying Prime Locations for Green Infrastructure Development
No full textEffective stormwater management is becoming increasingly important due to heightened rainfall as a result of climate change. Many cities, including Northampton, use gray infrastructure, which can be costly and lead to polluted runoff and flooding. Green infrastructure (GI) aims to mitigate flooding and runoff by allowing rainwater to be absorbed where it falls. With this in mind, we ask: How and where can Northampton implement more climate-adaptive and resilient stormwater management infrastructure? Our project utilized the mapping software ArcGIS Pro to create an overlay analysis, which we used to determine locations in Northampton, Massachusetts susceptible to significant stormwater runoff, and proposed implementing GI in these areas. We analyzed the water retention capacity of each proposed site before and after GI interventions to determine whether these sites would contribute to a reduction in the strain on its current stormwater management system during the event of a 5-year storm. This project recommends key sites within Northampton\u27s Connecticut River Flood Control sub-watershed for the implementation of GI, with a priority on vulnerable communities. We found that converting impervious surfaces to pervious surfaces, such as modifying parking lots to contain permeable pavement and planter boxes, most impacted runoff reduction. Ultimately, we determined that the implementation of GI alone was not enough to retain a 5-year storm, and that significant interventions will be needed in the future to accommodate one. These recommendations aim to enhance climate change resilience and serve as a guide for other cities looking to strengthen their systems without reconstructing their entire stormwater infrastructure
Greening Green Spaces: An Action Plan for Transforming City-Owned Lawns In Northampton
No full textTo promote sustainability and climate resilience, cities like Northampton, MA, are transforming traditional turfgrass lawns to incorporate low-maintenance ground covers. These changes can reduce costs, conserve resources, and support pollinator populations and native plant biodiversity. This paper offers recommendations for converting city-owned lawns into sustainable alternatives. Our approach involved consulting field experts, conducting a comprehensive literature review, and performing an aerial imagery analysis. Based on these findings, we mapped city-owned green spaces, categorizing them by size to inform adaptation options. By the end of the semester, our goal was to create three tiers of intervention, organized by cost and complexity, to give the city flexible options for lawn conversion. For each size category, we selected pilot sites to provide site-specific recommendations. Our research identified white clover seeding as a viable low-cost intervention, while meadowscaping and Miyawaki forests were recommended as more comprehensive, high-impact options. All interventions benefit native species, and each is designed to require less maintenance than the current turfgrass model. Ultimately, we aim to highlight the advantages of more resilient green spaces and provide the City of Northampton with a viable implementation strategy. Our final site recommendations include transforming Industrial Drive Park into a Miyawaki forest, converting part of Ray Ellerbrook field into an extensive-developed meadow with carved creeping thyme walking paths, and implementing solar grazing at the Northampton Solar Farm
Stories and Ecologies of Violence: Walking Together in Solidarity and Silence/ Chup
No full textIntroduction to Agitate! volume
Unit Title: Social Justice and Diversity in Arabic Pop Music
No full textA unit plan that can be used by teacher educators K-12 and K-16 for the learners of Arabic. It is published by the Institute of Middle East Studies, the George Washington University under teacher resources and was supported by a grant from the US Department of Education
Radical Vulnerability: Development, Translation, Justice
No full textRambeti, a Dalit farmer and a leader of the Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan (SKMS), a people’s movement in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, was disappointed. She had left her standing crop in her village and travelled all the way to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to share her experiences in a workshop on climate change, food security and gender, but her final assessment was: “They say they want to learn from us, but ... we can never be partners as long as they keep talking in the same sentence about my cow’s carbon emissions and the carbon emissions of global corporations. ... if they remain blind to our lives and truths, there can be no dialogue on this unjust terrain.” How might scholars ethically participate in producing knowledge in ways that connect across different meanings of struggle, hunger, hope, and the good life? Informed by over two decades of learning moments from a co-authored journey with the SKMS and Parakh Theatre, Radical Vulnerability bridges these divides with a fresh approach to academic theorising. Reflecting on her collaborations with activists, theatre artistes, writers and students, Richa Nagar discusses building embodied alliances among those who occupy different locations in predominant hierarchies. Such alliances can sensitively engage difference through a kind of full-bodied immersion and ethical translation, and make knowledges more humble, more tentative, and more alive to the creativity of struggle.https://scholarworks.smith.edu/swg_books/1014/thumbnail.jp
To Populate the World with Color: OSGEMEOS and the Brazilian Imaginary
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Enter the world of OSGEMEOS, the Brazilian twins driving international graffiti culture.
Contemporary art is sometimes considered an austere matter: ascetic in palette, serious in tone, a subject for sober contemplation. That stereotype is exploded—ecstatically, and in full color—by the work of OSGEMEOS, trailblazing twin Brazilian artists with a practice as firmly rooted in the rule-breaking world of urban graffiti as it is in the elevated spheres of museum and gallery. Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo first wielded their spray cans (and spun their discs, and breakdanced with friends) in the São Paulo hip-hop scene of the 1980s and ’90s, drawing from that vibrant milieu the lesson that art is at its best, and most meaningful, when everyone is invited to the party.
Combining historical and contemporary elements of Brazilian society with graffiti, hip-hop, and youth culture, OSGEMEOS: Endless Story extends an invitation into the artists’ expansive body of work, which embraces murals, paintings, sculpture, installations, and video, all using a symbolic visual language often inspired by dreams.
Renowned for their spindly yellow characters—seen dancing, writing graffiti, interacting with their urban settings, and stretching high across buildings and train cars worldwide—OSGEMEOS creates works that invite readers into a surreal, chimerical world filled with motifs that signal access to another realm or the deep psyche. This fantasy world, which they call Tritrez, is the apex of their vision: a land of wonder that reflects the diverse nature of Brazil itself.
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‘Some other land, some other sea’: Attia Hosain’s fiction and non-fiction in Distant Traveller
No full textBook Abstract The traditional narrative of the mid-century (1930s-60s) is that of a wave of expansion and constriction, with the swelling of economic and political freedoms for women in the 1930s, the cresting of women in the public sphere during the Second World War, and the resulting break as employment and political opportunities for women dwindled in the 1950s when men returned home from the front. But as the burgeoning field of interwar and mid-century women\u27s writing has demonstrated, this narrative is in desperate need of re-examination. Mid-century women\u27s writing: Disrupting the public/private divide aims to revivify studies of female writers, journalists, broadcasters, and public intellectuals living or working in Britain, or under British rule, during the mid-century while also complicating extant narratives about the divisions between domesticity and politics. Source: Publisherhttps://scholarworks.smith.edu/eng_books/1027/thumbnail.jp